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Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two players (singles) or four players (doubles) use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a 34-inch-high (0.86 m) net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction.
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The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois.Wilson makes equipment for many sports, among them baseball, badminton, American football, basketball, fastpitch softball, golf, racquetball, soccer, squash, tennis, pickleball and volleyball.
The name of a dog owned by Joel and Joan Pritchard that is often said to be the origin of the name for the sport of pickleball. However, Joan Pritchard has said that the dog came along after the sport was already named, and that it was the dog that was named after the sport. (See Etymology of pickleball) Plane of the net
Pickle boat (pickleball), the name origin for the sport. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pickle boat .
Pickleball is a similar sport invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington. It is played on a similar court and with a similar paddle but uses a plastic wiffle ball. Platform tennis is a similar sport invented in 1928 in Scarsdale, New York by James Cogswell and Fessenden Blanchard. The primary difference from paddle tennis is that the ...
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The United States Amateur Pickleball Association, originally abbreviated U.S.A.P.A., was founded by Bryon Olson, Sid Williams and a few other Washington state pickleball enthusiasts in 1984 in Tacoma, Washington. A few years later Williams changed the name of the organization to the United States of America Pickleball Association. Their ...